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...Spike and Mike also put together. At first, the warning seems unnecessary; the festival begins with relatively tame selections such as "No Neck Joe," starring a little boy with (you guessed it) no neck, and "Brian's Brain," about a boy trying to live without any flesh covering his frontal lobes...
Granted, the old Greenbergian version of Modernism -- the idea that art advances by shedding its superfluities and ending up in a state of idealized blandness, flat frontal sheets of color, a discourse of the medium alone -- cuts no ice today. Granted, too, the recoil from such prescriptions was both inevitable and justified. And yet color-field painting did produce some very beautiful and rigorous works, and it is hard to see how an exhibition that includes six Jasper Johnses and five Andy Warhols could not have found room for a Morris Louis Unfurled or a Kenneth Noland target...
Schizophrenia is a genetically influenced mental illness involving hallucinations, delusions, depression and disorderly thinking. No one knows what causes it, but the pathology involves misfiring neurotransmissions originating in the brain's limbic system, where movement and thought are first processed, then sent to the frontal lobes, where decision-making begins. Patients commonly imagine that people on television and in magazines are talking to them directly and personally. They become antisocial and depressed and hear aggressive voices that can sometimes command them to commit suicide -- or, on rare occasions, to kill someone. Pincus is convinced that homicidal violence only occurs when...
...reliving those terrible times." Says Pincus: "I believe he was abused -- beaten and burned." As for brain damage, tests administered in 1990 indicate that Shaw's right parietal lobe is damaged. That is the area of the brain that controls how we interpret the behavior of others. Shaw's frontal lobes are also atrophied...
...provided fans with concerts of pagan celebration: their music was bursting with guitar-powered Dionysian frenzy and golden calf-esque imagery (Bored with your lives, children? We've got a cow god for you). The group's final album, Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), featured cover art with full- frontal nudity, a song about kleptomania and an 11-minute rock epic that out-zeppelined Led Zeppelin...